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Donald Quixote - Battling Windmills - Update [1]
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Date: 2025-01-24
I first published this a week ago, before Donald's executive order, but he forced me to update it with his latest rant about windmills.
Trump's executive order halted issuing leases for offshore wind projects, as well as on land, and for renewing leases. It is having an effect on those already approved. The order has stopped the permitting process for installing turbines, as well.
"The president has always been a vocal critic of these disastrous scams, and we have been grateful for his unwavering support," New Jersey U.S. Rep Jeff Van Drew said.
Then he goes right off the deep end that Trump always takes about fishing and whales. He just forgot about the birds.
"This has been a long, hard fought battle against the powerful, foreign multinational corporations that have shown zero regard for our fishing industry, our environment, our whales, our national security, or the American energy consumer."
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy was totally behind the start of the project to provide abundant clean energy. New Jersey Republican legislators have Rep. Drew's attitude. Now that Trump is back in office with his disdain for clean energy, projects all over the country are in danger.
Donald, if you want to criticize subsidies, how about all the grift money your oil buddies' companies get from the federal government for various things, but especially for exploration. You pay them to find what they know is already there. $20 billion in 2022 alone. Do you have any idea how many solar panels and windmills that would pay for?
Trump ends his decree with, "You have FINALLY won your war on stupidity!!!"
No, the war on stupidity isn't won, Donald. You're still around.
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I just couldn't help it this time. Donald railing about windmills and I thought of Don Quixote.
Don Quixote was insane. He attacked windmills because he thought a magician had turned them into giants. The knight of the woeful countenance (song from the musical).
This isn't the first time Trump has complained about windmills. They kill birds. They kill whales. They make a sound that gives you cancer. Ridiculous stuff. But our president-elect has a thought in his head, that as you can see, once he's convinced about something, it never goes away. It just festers and the infection increases.
His hatred for the "Green New Scam" is well known. Anything that helps us get off the fossil fuel bandwagon is inherently bad. Any effort to deal with climate change is chasing an imaginary problem, like Don Quixote and his windmills. So, Donald, like Don, is crazy and attacking windmills as a symbol of misuse of public funds. If you want to complain about subsides, how about all the ones oil companies get, paying them to do exploration to find more oil. They get money just for going to find it, then all that money once they have found it.
There aren't thousands of windmills not working. They sometimes need to be taken offline for maintenance and blade replacement, but in 2015, that was .054% of the 700,000 blades in operation.
Most expensive energy. Nope. In the right location for the wind, wind power can be cheaper than solar power. I'm sure Donald doesn't want solar power either, but we haven't heard him moan about it, yet.
Yes, we have a crazy man about to occupy the White House. JD Vance is to Trump, as Sancho Panza is to Don Quixote. May they leave the windmills alone and go fight other imaginary battles. What's wrong with me? They already are.
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